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  • The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.

    Anger   Pride   Envy  
  • Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

    Pride   Want   Loud  
    Benjamin Franklin (1836). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.100
  • In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

  • Human pride and egoism always create divisions, build walls of indifference, hate and violence. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, makes hearts capable of understanding the languages of all, as he re-establishes the bridge of authentic communication between earth and Heaven.

  • Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

    Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”
  • I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride.

    Humility   Pride   People  
  • I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.

    Movie   Pride   Lunch  
    Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.wmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.
  • Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.

    Funny   Humor   Pride  
  • Purge me from every sinful blot; My idols all be cast aside: Cleanse me from every evil thought, From all the filth of self and pride. The hatred of the carnal mind Out of my flesh at once remove: Give me a tender heart, resigned, And pure, and full of faith and love.

    Heart   Pride   Idols  
    John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley”, p.21
  • The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.

    Ignorance   Pride   Evil  
    M. Scott Peck (2015). “The People Of The Lie”, p.302, Random House
  • Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.

  • I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my enthusiasm as nothing else can.

    Song   Art   Sex  
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.263, UPNE
  • A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.

    Pride   Victory   Defeat  
    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)
  • Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.444, Simon and Schuster
  • Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the pride and joy of their parents-should have had a strong and stable sense of self-assurance. But the case is exactly the opposite... Whenever they suddenly get the feeling they have failed to live up to some ideal image or have not measured up to some standard, then they are plagued by anxiety or deep feelings of guilt and shame. What are the reasons for such disturbances in these competent, accomplished people?

    Strong   Attitude   Pride  
  • Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.

    Mother   Daughter   Dad  
    "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.
  • Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

    Rap   Pride   Black  
    Interview With Larry McCaffery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1993.
  • A peacock escaped from the Central Park Zoo and wandered around the city. Either that or I just saw a pigeon on his way to a gay pride parade.

    Funny   Zoos   Pride  
  • Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

  • We must be careful to avoid spiritual elitism. Everything we are and anything we possess as believers in Christ is a gift of grace. Pure hearts before God must be cleansed from any hint of spiritual pride.

    Spiritual   Heart   Pride  
    Beth Moore (2010). “Paul: 90 Days on His Journey of Faith”, p.63, B&H Publishing Group
  • There is but one soul throughout the universe, all is but one existence - "Thou art in the woman, thou in the man, thou in the young man walking in the pride of youth, thou in the old man tottering on his stick - thou art All - in all, in everything, and I am thee, because I am made from thee."

    God   Art   Pride  
  • The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives them a sense of pride in their own civilization because of the prestige that science fhas in the present day world. It is furthermore a testament to the way Islam was able to cultivate various sciences extensively without becoming alienated from the Islamic world view and without creating a science whose application would destroy the world of nature and the harmony that must exist between man and the natural environment.

    Islamic   Pride   Men  
  • The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in a milky haze, making everything quieter as it fell, so that winter seemed to partake of religion in a way no other season did, hushed, solemn.

    Pride   Winter   Night  
  • Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.

    Mistake   Moving   Pride  
    Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.246, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.

    Pride   People   Want  
    "Yes we can: Labour election campaign to adapt Barack Obama's blueprint" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
  • Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

    Angel   Pride   Men  
    'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 117
  • For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.

    Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books
  • Psychologists, like other scientists, pride themselves on being extremely modern, and therefore much better than any group of people that ever were before.

    Pride   Science   People  
    Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”
  • The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.

  • Love's humility is love's true pride.

    Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.75
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